germ cell
- the sexual reproductive cell at any stage from the primordial cell to the mature gamete.
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Origin of germ cell
First recorded in 1850–55
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The line of descent or inheritance, therefore, is from germ-cell to germ-cell, and not from parents.
EmbryologyGerald R. Leighton
Germinal (sprig), due to something present in the germ-cell.
Applied EugenicsPaul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
The problems of the germ-cell, and its heredity, therefore, are very similar in both cases.
EmbryologyGerald R. Leighton
For the brain of a child is not descended from the brain of his parent, but from a germ-cell carried by that parent.
Being Well-BornMichael F. Guyer
What the exact relation of color production is to the parts of the germ-cell we do not know.
Being Well-BornMichael F. Guyer
germ cell
- a sexual reproductive cell; gameteCompare somatic cell
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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germ cell
- An ovum or a sperm cell or one of their developmental precursors.sex cell
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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germ cell
- One of the diploid cells in the reproductive organs of a multicellular organism that undergo division and are the precursors of haploid gametes, such as a spermatogonium or oogonium.
- See gamete.
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